[aprssig] APRS telemetry and the PIC 16F877A
Jason Winningham
jdw at eng.uah.edu
Wed Jan 24 15:20:37 EST 2007
I found working with the PIC to be like hitting myself with a hammer
- it feels good when you stop. Architecture is RISC enough to make
assembly programming painful for a project of any size, compilers all
cost $$.
I'm playing with the Atmel AVRs, in particular the ATmega8 on the
Arduino. http://www.arduino.cc/ It's got an IDE that's free, high
level, and cross platform (including Mac OS X). It's built on
avrlib, so you can disregard their GUI and use it instead if that
cranks your tractor.
The Arduino NG has 6 pins that can be analog inputs or digital IO,
plus a bunch more digital IO (total of 20 I/Os). It includes a built-
in RS232 to USB adapter.
US$32 at www.sparkfun.com
Just a satisfied user, standard disclaimers apply.
-Jason
kg4wsv
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